BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Alexandria Library X-WR-CALNAME:Alexandria Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:900f21d7-ef91-4393-a85e-8fecfa0d4a66 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260923T073943Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T203000 SUMMARY:Alexandria Library 1939 Civil Rights Sit-In LOCATION:Virtual\n

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The Alexandria Library Sit-In that occurre d on August 21\, 1939 is the earliest known library sit-in and a pivotal e vent in our library's history.  \;

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Library Director Rose Dawso n will tell the story of the event organized by local lawyer\, Samuel Wilb er Tucker\, as he had five African-American men  \;try to get library cards at the then whites-only Alexandria Library. \;

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The men\, who after being refused a library card\, then politely sat and read a boo k at tables in the library. \; The flustered staff called the police a nd the men were escorted out of the Queen Street building. Tucker arranged to have a photographer document the event. \; Virtually ignored by mo st newspapers\, the case for equal opportunity continued to be widely repo rted in the African American press across the country. \;

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Lear n more about this event and how it led to the changes made to the Alexandr ia Library. \;

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